Top 5 OBX Vacation Home Gyms

Trying to keep your New Year’s resolutions this year? Don’t let your vacation stop you! Many of the homes in Twiddy’s program offer incredible home gyms or access to community gyms. Enjoy the luxury of starting your morning with a workout before heading to the beach! We voted on our favorite home gyms and here are the results. Watch the video and scroll down for more information about each featured home.

#5- “Chateau De La Mer” (EC2)

Located in the Pine Island Reserve community of Corolla, this home’s gym offers three cardio workout machines including a treadmill, an upright bike with touchscreen and an elliptical. The space mimics the decor of a traditional gym with an entire wall of mirrors and a mounted TV. After your workout, cool off in the incredible lazy river!

#4- “Sound to Sea Beach Club” (EC3)

The home gym at “Sound to Sea Beach Club” uses its space very precisely and provides guests with everything on their workout wishlist. For cardio, the home gym provides a treadmill and a Peloton Cycle which allows guests to join live and on demand studio cycling sessions with world class instructors from around the world! In addition, the fitness room includes a three-tier dumbbell rack, yoga mats, exercise ball and mounted flatscreen.

#3- “Frankly My Dear” (B643)

Just steps from the beach in Duck, the exercise room at “Frankly My Dear” delivers ocean views to guests while they workout. With a treadmill, elliptical, upright bike and two mounted TVs, guests will have no issues finding a piece of fitness equipment suited for them. Need a cool down after your workout? Take a dip in the pool or walk across the dune deck and go for a swim in the ocean!

#2- “Here Comes the Sun” (ER005)

Located on the Corolla oceanfront in the community of Pine Island Reserve, this home’s gym satisfies the guests’ needs for both cardio and strength training exercise routines. Featuring a home gym with a variety of total-body exercises, upright bike, adjustable bench, two-tier dumbbell rack and mounted flatscreen, the fitness room at “Here Comes the Sun” offers guests with just about everything under the sun!

#1- “The Norris Cottage” (KD1527)

Take one look at this exercise room and you’ll see why “The Norris Cottage” made the #1 spot on Twiddy & Company’s top 5 home gyms. Located on the oceanfront in Kill Devil Hills, this home offers a massive fitness room with plenty of space for guests to workout together including two treadmills, home gym with countless total-body strength exercises, elliptical and more. Combine this equipment with the traditional gym decor of floor to ceiling mirrors and mounted TVs and you’ve got one incredible home gym to experience while on vacation!

If you book a vacation home without a home gym, look into the amenities that your home’s community offers such as Pine Island in Corolla or Four Seasons in Duck. Looking for a healthy smoothie or juice after a workout? Check out The Juice Jar in the Historic Corolla Village or Outer Bean with two locations in Duck and Kitty Hawk.